“What have we done to each other?”

“...success is not a comparison of what we have done with what others have done.”

“It is astonishing what can be done when people are truly loyal to each other and eager to meet each other's needs.”

“What do we have to live for, but each other. What do we have to die for, but our love?”

“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”

“Reading is a privileged pleasure because each of us enjoys it, quite complexly, in ways not replicable by anyone else. But there is enough structural common ground in the text itself so that we can talk to each other, even sometimes persuade each other, about what we read: and that many-voiced conversation, with which, thankfully, we shall never have done, is one of the most gratifying responses to literary creation, second only to reading itself.”